Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank Mr. Lynott and his team for their presentation. The Government has stepped up its ambition for 2030. Can ambition from the electricity sector be upped from where it is, that is, 70%, and at what marginal abatement cost is it at per tonne of carbon? On the issue of microgeneration, is policy settled on the price the system will pay those microgenerators? Where will that land? That will be important.

The witnesses mentioned in their presentation the need for correct signals. Can they elaborate on those correct signals? The Minister made a significant announcement about offshore recently, which indicated the State will take a greater role in it. On the issue of being in the emissions trading scheme, ETS, versus not being in it, as I understand it being in the ETS means things like data centres go to the most efficient location in Europe. To some extent, that is why they have come to Ireland. How does that impact on the system? Presumably the ETS makes some allowance for the fact that Ireland is providing, to some degree, an important service because we are efficient at doing so. I ask how being in the ETS, or not, bears on public policy.